Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party at the Prevoyance Sociale Building, Dr. Schweitzer exchanged pleasantries, then made his choice between an escalator and a flight of stairs to the fourth-floor scene of his new honor. Bemusing most of his greeters, Nobelman Schweitzer flew up the stairs, left those who had deferred to his age by taking the escalator to ponder the virtues of fast footwork...
...firm that specializes in finding executives for business and industry. Ward Howell invited suggestions from Leonard Bernstein, Rudolf Bing, Sir Thomas Beecham, et al. With a list of 35 candidates to work from, the firm set up interviews, started vetting applicants on the basis of previous success, experience and age-35 to 50 preferred. The rigid combination of musical and managerial talent proved hard to find: one candidate, a lawyer, was washed out because he was high on executive ability but low on musical experience; an opera-company director knew his music thoroughly but seemed a poor administrator. Several were...
...music was on his way to the West Coast. His name: George Adrian Kuyper, longtime manager of the Chicago Symphony, a sometime English instructor (University of Michigan), associate manager of the Boston Symphony and onetime amateur violinist. Kuyper, it turned out, was 60-ten years above the recommended age...
...orchestra arrived in Manhattan on a 40-day, six-country tour. At each of the concerts, the Viennese played Mozart-Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Symphony No. 40-and to many listeners the effect was startling. Most Western orchestras play Mozart as if they remembered the 18th century only as the Age of Reason, give the music a cold, chiseled brilliance. The Viennese approach is easy, mellow, almost sentimental, conveying a chamber group's intimacy in place of thrust and stride...
...instrumentalists making their way to the stage of St. Louis' Kiel Auditorium ranged in age from 13 to 60. Some of them were housewives, others were students, disk jockeys, dentists, engineers. But when Guest Conductor Edouard van Remoortel rapped them to silence and led them into Beethoven's Egmont Overture, housewife and teen-ager played with astonishing competence. At the start of its 100th season, the St. Louis Philharmonic demonstrated again what its admirers have long claimed-that it is the finest non-professional orchestra in the world...